Preparation

My quilt guild runs lots of little challenges and group projects through the year, including block lottos and fabric company challenges, and most recently a group specific charity project.

So in preparation for this coming guild meeting, I spent the long Thanksgiving weekend sewing! Since we started fostering dogs pre-adoption, I've barely touched my machine so it was fun to dust it off and make things!

Fist up was a "low volume" 12.5" block for the block lotto (each block gets you a raffle ticket, one lucky person takes everything home!). I don't really have a lot of low volume fabric, so mine was more volume-y than perhaps it should be. Oh well! I pieced scraps together and then did a standard log cabin construction. Log cabins seem to be my default!

 The second group effort I'm participating in this month is a collection of blocks so that the guild can assemble "emergency quilt kits" for members who have a need to make a quilt in a short time frame due to some kind of unforeseen situation (health crisis, eloping, who knows!). Our first kit will use red and white crosses, using a provided center square for continuity. I delved into my scrap bag and came up with these.

 

The airplane fabric in the bottom square is just about my all time favourite fabric, purchased as part of a 30s repro fat quarter stack from my first ever quilting cotton purchase! If I ever found yardage of this I might buy it all.